Alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos dropped his $10 million lawsuit against publisher Simon & Schuster on Tuesday, according to New York County Court documents and representatives for both parties. The case was dismissed with prejudice.

Yiannopoulos sued for breach of contract in July 2017 after the cancellation of his book Dangerous, claiming that Simon & Schuster violated the terms of their deal to publish following public outrage. Simon & Schuster claimed that the book had "substantial problems."

“We are pleased that Mr. Yiannopoulos’s lawsuit has been withdrawn, with prejudice, and with no payment from Simon & Schuster. We stand by our decision to terminate the publication of Mr. Yiannopoulos’s book," Simon & Schuster Director of Corporate Communications Adam Rothberg told BuzzFeed News.

Yiannopoulos, who had been representing himself in the lawsuit since January, posted a celebratory statement to his Facebook and Instagram pages explaining why he dropped the lawsuit.

"After finally being able to personally review the documents that Simon & Schuster disclosed, it was clear to me that they wrongfully terminated my contract in bad faith," he said.

"Having earned well over a million dollars from publishing my New York Times best-selling book Dangerous myself, it was always going to be hard to prove damages, as anyone who has ever hired a 'damages expert' will know. I don't want to spend all the money I made from my book, and the next two years of my life, on a lawsuit. I would rather use it to help other authors reach the conservative audience that Simon & Schuster hates so much (but is happy to profit from, naturally)."

So..... cj.....i love this vid.....it is salty and crass...... i am a huge fan of malcolm nance..... dude was a CTCS in the Navy..... I was an ETC in the Navy.... I never knew him..... but i have read intel that he has been involved in....not talking about shit that is in public yet..... military shit... not election shit. It is a bit long... 12 minutes..... Larry Wilmore fucks Milo up as well.

Malcolm Nance says after Milo starts talking about who should be President between Hillary and Trump...... Are you American?

So..... cj.....i love this vid.....it is salty and crass...... i am a huge fan of malcolm nance..... dude was a CTCS in the Navy..... I was an ETC in the Navy.... I never knew him..... but i have read intel that he has been involved in....not talking about shit that is in public yet..... military shit... not election shit. It is a bit long... 12 minutes..... Larry Wilmore fucks Milo up as well.

Malcolm Nance says after Milo starts talking about who should be President between Hillary and Trump...... Are you American?

If you typed the phrase “attention whore with no redeeming social value” in a google search box Milo’s face would appear. He isn’t real, he is a caricature and he knows it. Just another social media created waste of bandwidth and space. If people stopped paying attention to him he would wither like a pulled up thistle on a concrete sidewalk. (I fucking hate thistles.)

_________________bird's theorem-"we the people" are stupid.

"No one is so foolish as to choose war over peace. In peace sons bury their fathers, in war fathers bury their sons." - Herodotus

So..... cj.....i love this vid.....it is salty and crass...... i am a huge fan of malcolm nance..... dude was a CTCS in the Navy..... I was an ETC in the Navy.... I never knew him..... but i have read intel that he has been involved in....not talking about shit that is in public yet..... military shit... not election shit. It is a bit long... 12 minutes..... Larry Wilmore fucks Milo up as well.

Malcolm Nance says after Milo starts talking about who should be President between Hillary and Trump...... Are you American?

On Tuesday, ThinkProgress reported that First National Bank was one of at least 22 corporations that the NRA says offer incentives to NRA members. The bank and its parent company did not respond to repeated inquires about whether last week’s horrific mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, would cause it to reconsider its relationship with the group leading the charge to oppose gun violence prevention efforts.

Civic Center statue that depicts a conquering vaquero and a missionary standing over a fallen and nearly naked American Indian man is a step closer to being removed, after a unanimous decision Wednesday by the San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission.

The city Arts Commission had already agreed, also unanimously, to remove the “Early Days” sculpture from its pedestal at the base of the Pioneer Monument just east of City Hall. But the plan needed the preservation commission’s sign-off because it’s located in a historic district. The Arts Commission is expected to make a final decision in March or April.

Critics say the deeply controversial sculpture is offensive because hundreds of thousands of American Indians lost their lives as California was being settled by newcomers.

Two major airlines. A cybersecurity firm. Six car rental brands. A home security company. An Omaha bank. Companies have scrambled to cut ties with the National Rifle Association over the past couple of days, and the list continued to grow into the weekend.

Snap is not my favorite company, and the sooner it goes south the better. Bye.

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It doesn't matter what that Milo mf says. We know that the people who consume TV, especially this kind of TV, aren't listening. Milo's mere presence on TV shows, or causing riots in Berkeley, is enough to establish notoriety. In this culture, notoriety is indistinguishable from fame. I would hazard a guess that Malcolm did 100 million times more for his country, but about ten million times more people have heard of Milo. If Milo shoots someone on 5th avenue in broad daylight, make that 100 million.

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The elephant in the room is that a significant segment of overprivileged white conservative America had a collective hissy-fit when an African American got elected president. It really doesn't have to be any more complicated than that, but polite discourse seems to prevent us from saying so. But that's really it, you know.

_________________"Our democratic institutions... seem to have been upended by frat-boy billionaires from California," remarked Canadian politician Charlie Angus. (BBC, 11/27/18)

Snap is not my favorite company, and the sooner it goes south the better. Bye.

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It doesn't matter what that Milo mf says. We know that the people who consume TV, especially this kind of TV, aren't listening. Milo's mere presence on TV shows, or causing riots in Berkeley, is enough to establish notoriety. In this culture, notoriety is indistinguishable from fame. I would hazard a guess that Malcolm did 100 million times more for his country, but about ten million times more people have heard of Milo. If Milo shoots someone on 5th avenue in broad daylight, make that 100 million.

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The elephant in the room is that a significant segment of overprivileged white conservative America had a collective hissy-fit when an African American got elected president. It really doesn't have to be any more complicated than that, but polite discourse seems to prevent us from saying so. But that's really it, you know.

agree re: the elephant in the room. but it isn't the only elephant. the entire business concept of selling a brand as opposed to selling goods or services derives from the '80's and '90's. it is one of the end results of free market capitalism. you make nothing but sell image.

as for snap, who cares. if you are stupid enough to hold their shares you deserve to lose your money.

the decline of the u.s. will make Rome look like a cakewalk.

_________________bird's theorem-"we the people" are stupid.

"No one is so foolish as to choose war over peace. In peace sons bury their fathers, in war fathers bury their sons." - Herodotus

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear the Trump administration's appeal of a federal judge's ruling that requires the government to keep the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program going.

Under a lower court order that remains in effect, the Department of Homeland Security must continue to accept applications to renew DACA status from the roughly 700,000 young people, known as Dreamers, who are currently enrolled. The administration's deadline of March 5, when it intended to shut the program down, is now largely meaningless.

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Monday's action by the Supreme Court leaves the DACA challenge pending before the California appeals court, where it is in the very early stages. The Justice Department has said it would take at least another year to get back to the Supreme Court for a decision on DACA's future.

If Congress acts in the meantime to extend the program or provide an alternative path to citizenship, the legal case would probably be dismissed. But prospects for a legislative solution have dimmed after repeated bi-partisan efforts failed to pass an immigration bill.

The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars workplace discrimination on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin and religion, covers lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees who complain that they’re discriminated against due to sexual preference, the federal appeals court in Manhattan said Monday.

At least two federal appeals courts have banned discrimination over sexual orientation, while a third appeals court has reached a different conclusion, setting up a possible Supreme Court appeal.

"Sexual orientation discrimination -- which is motivated by an employer’s opposition to romantic association between particular sexes -- is discrimination based on the employee’s own sex," the appeals court said.

The case was filed by a skydiving instructor, Donald Zarda, who claimed he was fired by Altitude Express Inc. because he was gay. He argued that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act covers sexual orientation. Zarda, who sued in 2010, died in a base-jumping accident in Switzerland in 2014. His estate and relatives carried on with the case.

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The Trump administration filed a legal brief in support of the skydiving company, based on New York’s Long Island. The U.S. argued that courts must take legislative intent into consideration, and that Congress didn’t have the LGBT community in mind when it crafted the legislation.

The administration’s stance challenges a group of 50 companies and organizations -- including Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Viacom Inc. -- that filed documents in June arguing discrimination based on sexual orientation should be illegal.

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